Freshfields announced today that Andrew Gladstein has joined the firm’s litigation practice as a partner in New York. Andrew’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. He has represented investment managers and alternative investment funds in a variety of civil matters and regulatory investigations. Gladstein arrives at Freshfields from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.
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Cozen O’Connor has announced veteran real estate attorney Jennifer Nellany, who has served as both outside counsel and in-house general counsel for some of the world’s largest public and private real estate brands, has joined its award winning Real Estate Group. A real estate generalist with a focus on hospitality, Nellany joins Cozen O’Connor as a member and will reside in its New York City office. She is the fifth major addition to the firm’s Real Estate Group this year, joining Meenakshi Srinivasan in New York, and Enzo Sallese, Steven I. Pearlstein, and Andrea Wong in Toronto. Prior to joining Cozen O’Connor, Nellany served as general counsel for New York City-based Kushner Companies.
Akerman is proud to announce Michael T. Carr has joined the firm’s Litigation Practice Group as partner in the New York office. Carr focuses his practice on real estate litigation with an emphasis on landlord/tenant lease litigation. His clients include some of New York City’s largest landlords, developers, and managers. Carr joins the firm from Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.
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Sidley is pleased to announce that John C. Godfrey has joined Sidley’s M&A and Private Equity practice as a partner in New York. Mr. Godfrey joins Sidley from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP where he served as a member of that firm’s M&A and PE practices. This follows the addition of a team of 11 lawyers from Paul, Weiss in the last 10 months.
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King & Spalding announced today that Jennifer Recine, Sarmad Khojasteh and David Kupfer have joined the firm’s Business Litigation practice group as partners. They are based in the firm’s New York office. Recine, Khojasteh and Kupfer join the firm from Kasowitz Benson Torres, where they practiced together as partners.
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Akin is pleased to announce that Scott Colton has joined the firm’s special situations & private credit practice as a partner in New York. He joins from Paul Hastings, closely following the firm’s recent addition of preeminent private credit partner Bill Brady, with whom Scott has worked for many years.
Tags: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | New YorkKing & Spalding announced today that tax lawyer Craig Phillips has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate practice group. Phillips is based in the firm’s New York office. Phillips joins the firm from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where in addition to advising on energy and infrastructure transactions he provided tax advice to corporate clients and private funds across industries.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, announced today that Veronica Relea has joined the Energy, Projects & Transactions Section of the Global Projects Department as a partner in the New York office. Relea joins from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
Fox Rothschild is pleased to welcome Andrew M. J. Bernstein to our New York office as a partner in the Litigation Department. Prior to joining Fox, Bernstein was a partner at Armstrong Teasdale.
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Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that financial services lawyers Steven Lofchie and Mark Highman have joined the firm as partners in the New York office. Lofchie advises financial institutions and corporate clients on securities, broker-dealer regulation and credit and derivative transactions. Highman focuses on broker-dealer, investment adviser, commodity trading advisor and commodity pool regulation. Lofchie joins the firm from Fried Frank along with Highman.
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